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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The orange trade of Southern Cali
fornla this year will be lar-er than ever
before.
TO make paper mache for fine,
small work, boil clippings Of brown OF
white paper in water, beat them into
paste, add glue or gum, and size and
press in oiled molds.
The amount of capital and capital
stock put into new industrial enterprises
in the South during 1886 is reported by
the Chicago Journal at $l29. 900. 900 IS
against $50, 200. 900 in 1885.
-Of three million cases of canned
tomatoes. the reported product OF the
tomato canning business in the United
States last year, more than seven hum
dred thousand cases were put up in
New Jersey.
The number of applications for
patents in England during the past
year was II, 1852, which puts 1886 at the
head of the list by a slight majority.
In 1884, the next largest year, there
were IL, 10 applications.
An electric railway has been put in
operation in Los Angeles, Cal. It is
said to be the first place west of the
Rocky Mountains to use electricity As
motor for street car uses. The road
Is about three miles long.
The Amcrican Manufacturer says
| that one of the most adhesive and dura-
BILE of cements for uniting iron sur
| faces is found to be the oxide Of iron
itself. With this joint can bemade
SO perfect and sound that the iron will
break before the cement viii part.
| I'm certain Austrian coal mines
work is suspended in dangerous places
during fall of the barometer, expert
ments still in progress having shown
that the quantity and intensity Of ex-
plosive gases greatly increases as the
degree of atmospheric pressure dimin-
ishes.
-Gravitation upon the sun Is about
twenty-seyen times as great as ON tho
earth. If the force of gravity here
were increased to that of the sun, W.
should be unable to move; a 150-pound
man would then weigh about two tons
For some time past experiment.
have been made in Germany with Z
composition of cork, sand and linn
nodded into bricks for the construction
of light partition walls. This. it is said
excludes sound better than brickwork
and is also light and good non-con
ductor of heat.
Wheat culture in India has grown
to such largo proportions and yielded
such liberal profits that Indian farmer
are now giving more attention to tn
purchase Of farming implements ant
machinery, and a large demand i
looked for.
| "A new form of railway seat spring
has been devised in England, and j
highly spoken Of. The entire seat j
carried on coiled spring Of peculia
form, and is free to move in all direc
tons, so that every jerk and oscillation
which the car can receive is perfect,
fakan mn
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14
puNoENr PARAGRAPHS.

do bad acts condemn . MANI
asks a writer. Well, no, not exactly;
but they are apt to bring him where he
is condemned.
1t is said that "a mule can not bray
If brick is tied to his tail" Yes. but
what becomes of the man who engineers
the brick?- Burlington Free Press.
III always did take good picture, y
remarked the burglar, as he laid hold of
valuable painting in the house which
he was visiting professionally. Boston
Transcript
While man lives in this world he
seldom gets credit for all he does and
says. When he dies he gets credit for
three times as much as he ever did or
said. Baltimore american.
Young Lady-"You say you will
grent me any favor / askp" Aged
Masher-sYes. dearest angel. I'll do
any thing in the world you. ask Of me. =
ssThen propose to my grandmother.
She is widow. "-1eras Siftings.
-Wife-"Henry, didn't ! hear yor
bet your boots on the election with
Squeersp' Husband-"Y-y-yes. my
dear, Ibelieve you did" Wife-"Well,
I'd like to know what I'm going to do
for a seat to Willie's pants. Judge.
-"No woman can make afool Of me, y
remarked young man who had sig
nally failed in doing that same for a
smart Dupont Circle girl. "Well, hard
ly." she replied. ''seeing that nature
has anticipated such action on the part
Of any Of our sex. chicago Journal.
"A little Buffalo girl was not feeling
well and her parents suggested that she
might be about to have chicken-pox.
then prevalent. She went to bed laugh
| ing at the idea, but early next morning
went into her parents room, looking
very serious, and said: Eyes, it is
chicken-pox, papa; ! found fodder in
| the bed.
--Keepsakes.-
Each lover has keepsake
For the memory of his love;
One has note or ribbon,
And one curl or glove.
| But am rich in keepsales;
Three notes treasure apart;
| There ere two accepting my preeents
And one declining my heart
-Aacnsill0n's Magazine
-On every road since railway trains
10 turn their wheels began, at every
station you will see solitary man.
His brow is damp with beaded sweat,
his heart with woe is cleft Most earn
estly he wants to go, the man that's
always left. II the train due at one p.
m. should wait till half-past eight,
there'd be one man come down to g
just thirty seconds late. y Bnrdcste,
-Wife-.John. what do You think Of
the new cookr' Husband - Excellent,
my dear, excellent. l never enjoyed q
better meal than my dinner to-day.
Where did ypu ever manage to find such
remarkably good-looking young
woman, anyway" In just i've minutes
oy the watch the cook was informed
hat she might find another nlace.-
Washinaton CFitie
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14

Ten years ago Thomas F. Clark
iokingly gave Miss Julia A. Malcolm, Of
New Haven. deed of certain Colorado
lands. which he thought to be value
less. She said that she'd keep the doc
ument to remember him.by, locked it
up, and has since been earning her liv-
ing teaching school. The other day
she received a letter from Colorado.
saying that there was lead mine on
her property, and $3.50, 600 was offered
for it. Miss Malcolm thought it a joke.
but finding that it wasn't, she accepted
the offer and the check il on il way
cast. Hartford Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14
A SCOTCH EVICTION

A Baby and Cradle Seized In . Case OF
Dlstralnt for Rent.
A baby and cradle figure among
che goods and chattels recently seized
for non-payment of rent in Portree,
Scotland. The thing seems Incredible,
but it is cold fact Here is the official
list of articles seized by Alexander
Mcdonald, Sheriff of Inverness, on ac-
count of non-payment Of rent by
William McRae, tenant Of Lord Nc
Donald. as it appeared in the Glasgow
Mnil
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14


Ny Box IN THE WO0DsHED.
LAKE CTrr, NY
DEAR CHARLIE: Mamma has Just
shut me out, and said I was q very
naughty dog; SO / thought I'd jump
into my box and tell you all about it.
Well. tonight papa and mamma
were eating supper, when the door-bell
began to ring, so upstairs they went
and forgot to put me out.
l thought I'd just see what was on
the table; 80 / jumped into papa's chair.
and there ON plate were some nice
slices of tongue that they had saved for
Oaddie's supper-she hadn't come yet.
Oh, how good they smelt; and, only
think, Charlie, 1 hadn't had bit Of
meat to-day; nothing but bread and
milk. And Caddie could cat the bread
and butter and. cookies. l don't like
them as well as meat, and. oh, how
empty my stomach felt! 90 l just ats it
up clean.
Then / heard them coming, so l
jumped down, and was so glad to see
Caddie, who patted me on the head
and called me good dog.
Pretty soon mamma said: s.Why,
where has all that tongue gone top
and looked right At me.
OF course, didn't pretend to know
any thing about il but mamma scolded
me, said l was naughty and put me
out, as ! have told you.
The man at the market told papa that
he must not feed me much meat, for II
. would make me have fits. Now, Char
| lie, that isn't so, for I feel great deal
more like having fits when / dom have
meat; any dog would.
have knawed the toe Of papa's old
slipper so that he gave it to me; and
wear it on my nose whenever 60 out
| to rum round the yard and bark.
| Every time hear . boy whistle in
the street, l jump At the window to see
| If it is yos; but it isn't; 50 back I go to
my old bones in the yard.
l got tired, one day, Of gnawine
them. and thought I'd dig up mammal
Gala lily. She caught me 1t it. though,
| and chased me AL around the ymd with
. stick. II hit the end Of my tail once
or twice, but didn't hurt bit; SO
shall do it again the hrst chance get
| call her ssmamma" because you do
and I heard her tell lady the Other
day that / was all the little boy shs
had, roo.
| Oh, such . queer-looking thing ha.
| Just peeped in ct the window; It had
green eyes. . tail twice ~ long Is mine
Papa said "kittums, kittums,' - and 4
said ''miew, miew." II it comes in MI
| yard again, / shall just pull its tail out
| that's all.
One day ! was lying on my back
playing with papa's toe, when mamml
came in and sprinkled some cold watel
on me. 1 jumped up 50 quick that the1
all laughed, and that made me angry
/ Jew upstairs, matched . slipper ou
Of the closet, and jumped into the mid
die Of the spare bed. Then I pulle(
down the clean pillow-shams to pla,
with and rolled them round the slip
per. II was naughty, / know. to max,
90 much work for mamma; but sh.
must learn not to abuse me.
Oh. Charlie! She threw her Enelisl
| ivy in the ash barrel to-day. 70,
know I pulled it up by the roots
scratched ont the dirt, and broke t.
jar:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14

Gold leaf is cut by placing it on a
fiat clean leather pad, pressing it very
gently and saving with q perfectly
straight-edged clean knife or split cane.
The best Dutch metal may replace the
gold leafif perfectly smooth. The Dutch
metal may be cut between paper by
close-shearing scissors with such long
blades that each cut is made with one
motion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14

-All modern high explosives are now
almost universally exploded by the
agency Of electricity
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-14


A very polite, mutton-chop whiskered
official escorted me over the works
for this mandatory is to-day used in
the fabrication of arms for the army
and explained the process for sword
making in use at present The ancient
mode Of manufacture has been aban-
doned, both as regards forging and
tempering, whilst the iron now employed
comes from Germany. The sand of the
Tagus is no longer used, and the sheep
suet is replaced by soap. However, the
arms still turned out are Of excellent
quality, and in the sala de pruentas, or
proof-room, had the satisfaction of
testing blades that rolled themselves
several times upon themselves like SER
penis, and that sprang into straightness
in flash.
But that which has been lost is the
form and elegance. l invested in a
blade, as in duty bound, paying, there
for, about twenty-three dollars. but it
is no longer in Toledo that the good
blades are found; they are snapped up
by museums and by collectors. the pc
yiilo fetching up to two hundred and
fifty dollars. My bachelor friend is en-
chanted with his blade. He has sus-
pended it from the ceiling. and l care
fully avoid that portion Of the room over
which. like the sword Of Damocles. it 80
threateningly hangs. -NugeM Robin
SON, in Youths Comparison.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18
Our Winters.

The long and tedious winter yields
to the power of the sun, which has
already climbed high toward it's north
ernmost limit. The snow is pass
ing away and it will be but a few
weeks, possibly days, before nature will
be beautifully clad in garments of
green. Vermont winters do more
toward driving her people to more
genial climes, than all other draw backs
in the state. Six months of winter
where much of the time it is uncom-
forta bly, cold, to say nothing of the
time when travelling is bad and bust
ness at a standstill, makes it a
wearysome period. The music of
sleighbells loses its power to thrill
the ear or the soul with pleasure,
and the white snow and glttering
frost, beautiful as they may be, fail
to charm.
1t is our misfortune, in this sec
ton, not only to reside in latitude
that borders on the frigid line, but
at an altitude that is unfavorable.
We cannot chide nature, for the con-
ditions are favorable for cold. We
were lately reading of a people who
live away up toward the Pole where
their ice huts stand the year round,
and their window panes are sheets
of ice that stand both the heat of
the sun and the warmth of the fire
within. And yet it is claimed that
the people who are born and bred
there, if taken to a warmer place
sigh for a return to the ice fields of
the north. 1t is true we suppose
that the cool air, the driven snow
and the frost work of our country,
have their advantages and their Joys
we fail sometimes to appreciate
which we might long for were we
placed in the facilitating climate of
the south. Nature in these regions
compels activity; it is work, work,
the summer season to supply the
wants of the winter; it is stir, stir.
and fight, fight, the rest of the year
to keep fed, and to keep warm
Some who have chosen homes away
among the hills struggle to keep top
the snow and to keep open commun-
ication with the store, the post office
and the doctor.
But the winter is not an unmitiga-
ted evil. There are kinds of work,
aside from the work the winter
brings, that can well be done in
winter, and there are pleasures in the
home beside the big stove and the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18
The Russian Soldier.

He is, under ordinary Circumstance
es. a soft-hearted, good-natured fell
low. with savage instincts IN his semi
barbarous nature which render him
capable of almost any brutality, if he
is once thoroughly excited. The aw-
full satrocities committed during the
late prosecutions of the Jews are still
fresh in our minds, and bear witness
to the savagery of the Russian peas
ant, and the treatment experienced
bv the Turcomas, both after the cap
ture of Khiva and the fall of Cock
Tepe, show that at all events in Asia,
authorities even encourage the worst
passions of the soldier. Perhaps
Skobeleff's greatest quality as a sue
cessful General was his thorough APP
probation of the peculiarities of the
men he commanded. He had a won
derful hold on their svmpathies, and
he enjoyed popularity with the
rank and file such as no other Rus
sian General has ever acquired. 1t
was Skoebeleff who conducted the
pun suit and harrying of the wretched
Yomud TurcOmans after KhIva, so
wildly described by his friend and
admirer, the American correspondent
Mace ahan; and it was Skobeleff
who, after the storming of Geek
Tepe, land the rout of its brave Tekke
defenders, gave twenty-four hours
complete liberty to his excited sol
diers to work their wicked will on the
persons and property of the defence
less families of the dispersed TurcO-
mans. Skobeleff thoroughly under
stood his men, and re-established his
control as deliberately as he permit
ted unbridled license. For exactly
twentv-four hours the captors of
Geek Tepe were uncontrolled with
in six hours of the termination of
that period two soldiers were shot for
tritiing crimes. This circumstance,
coupled with the fact of Skobeleff's
great popularity in the army, gives a
striking indication of the character
of the Russian soldier, as judged by
the man who knows him best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

north until it reaches the southern end
of the Montreal bridge. This remark
able road has a so-caIled branch ope-
rating once per week between White
River junction and Montpelier, and a
tri-weeklv branch extending to Bur-
lington. Montpelier is the home of
Hiram Atkins, the famous 'Nestor Nv
Checkerberry journalism and White
River junction the whistling station
and water tank from which our coun-
try gets its election returns every
four years. Burlington is located on
Lake Champlain and contains the
summer residence of the grand old
survivor of the glacial period, Geo.
+. Edmunds. Thus in a brief para
graph have we compressed all that
can be said of the commerce and the
railways of Vermont.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

Among the difficult questions
which the Interstate commission will
be asked to decide, is one which is
likely to touch upon the color line.
y colored man in Georgia, who
had paid for a frst-class ticket, was
ordered out of a tirst-class car by
the conductor. Not content with
this, the white passengers indignant
at such ''impudence, put the col
ored passenger off the train at the
next station. The matter has been
brought before the commissioners.
1t certainly seems to come under
their jurisdiction, inasmuch as the
Interstate commerce bill covers
passenger rs well as freight trans
pOrtatlon. The decision of this
case, as it must establish a prece-
dent, will be awaited with no little
curiosity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

The most important arrests ever
made in western Pennsylvania were
begun at an early hour Monday morn
ing. The officers of the Pan Handle
railroad have in custody many of the
mort daring gang of railroad robbers
this country has ever known, but
they run up into the hundreds. The
stealings extended over period of
two or three years and the amount
stolen reaches nearly sj00,000. Sim
ultaneous arrests were made all along
the line of the Pan Handle road be-
tween Pittsburg and Columbus, Ohio.
Warrants have been in the hands of
officers some time, and the persons
arrested comprise nearly the entire
freight men of the line. They include
the conductors. brakemen, engineers
and firemen. The ringleaders of the
gang are unt nown, but some of them
are now believed To be nnder arrest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18
Sherman'S Sayings.

Senator Sherman is just now more
quoted than most any other public
man. Clubs and societies seek his
presence, interviewers are after him,
and he talks as frankly and boldly
to everybody as though he did not
care whether anybody supports him
or not.
He told ". 7. World correspond
ent the other day that when leaders
of the labor party ''depart from the
natural objects of such organizations
and enter the field of politics they
are apt to defeat, and nearly always
do defeat, the ends they seek to ac-
complish. They can never get the
farmer vote. The labor vote is con-
fined to large cities, where it is nat
ural and easy to aggregate men and
interests connected with similar meth
DDS of wage-earning. Their demands
concerning hours of labor and man
ner of pay constitute points upon
which great masses of workingmen
may agree, but the farmer never will
heed such theories. When it is hay
ing time, or when stock is to be fed,
he never heeds how early or how late
the hour is. He is the most independ-
ent voter in the world, as he is the
most independent in his mode of ev-
istence."
This is as refreshing as it is true.
Senator Sherman is considerable of a
farmer himself and he has the reputa-
ton of looking we'll after his fences.
He probably don't expect to raise
many potatoes in the cities. In the
ripeness of his wisdom he takes a
large view of duties and opportuni
ties. Here Is what he wrote to the
Young Republican club of Philadel-
phia NJ onday:
What you have to do is still fur
ther to develop and diversity Ameri-
can industry. It should be our aim
to produce everything in this country
for which the God Of nature has Civ
en- us the raw materials, or which are
suited to our soil and climate. Ev-
cry measure should be supported that
will tend to foster, defend and pro-
tect home industries. We should
not be content until every channel of
communication capable of improve
ment, and which will yield benefits
equal to their cost, shall be improved.
The education of the rising genera
ton, without respect to race, color or
previous condition, ought to be a con-
slant object of desire. The equal
enjoyment of every civil and political
right given by the constitution should
be secured by every legal and con-
stitutional means. The shadows and
prejudices of the past should be lift
ed by the lights of modern civiliza-
ton. The workingmen in every con-
dition and employment of life should
be encouraged, protected and assist
ed by every reasonable measure to
advance his condition and to open up
to him, by honest labor and enterprise,
all the avenues Of wealth and honor.
Our adversaries may brood over the
dead past and mourn the decay of
confederate ideas, but republicans
hail with unbUunded satisfaction ev-
cry advance of our country in strength
and power at home and abroad, con-
scious that this is consistent with the
full powers of state, county and local
governments, reaching to every fam
ily and homestead in the land.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

The sixth annual banquet Of the
Young Republicans of Philadelphia
was given Monday night, and was
largely attended. Ex-Governor John
=. Wise of Virginia was the guest
of the evening. In responding to a
toast he made a vigorous attack upon
the democratic party. He also said
1.-The republican party, if it would win.
must cease stalking its all ON New
York. Virginia is republican. Elev-
en- counties, with 100, 900 whites and
but $4,000 blacks, give on an aggre-
gate of $4,000, a republican majority
of over 2O00. Indiana no more has
Hendricks and Mcdonald to lead
the one is dead, the other snubbed.
West Virginia is republican; Tenn
essee and North Carolina are ready
to come. Let US devote one-tenth
the energy and means on them that
has gone TO New York in the past
and victory is ours"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

President Cleveland has written a
letter to some New England parties
in relation to the fisheries. He does
not commit himself to any particular
policy, but acknowledges the grave
position he is placed in by the. act of
congress and hopes there will be no
occasion for 4 retaliatory policy. If
he had been a Ii tie more outspoken
there would have been less danger of
outrages. The Canadians will 90 as
far rs they dare to, but would not be
likely to do anything to endanger
.L-s. - i'll the $780,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

The sole surviving representative
of the revolutionary war, as recog-
nized by the government, is Abigail
5. Tilton of North Woodbridge, Rock
ingham county, n. H., the widow of
Benjamin Stevens, who participated
in the battle of Bennington as a men,
Der of Captain McConnelPs company,
under the command of Gen. Stark.
Mrs. Tilton is now a trifie more than
one hundred wears old.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18
Reneyys Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe chesley, Clay Co., Iowa, tells the
following reTnarkahie story lae truth Of which IS
voaehed tor BY the Fesidera Of the town 81 am "a
years old. have been troubled with kidney com.
paint and iameneSs for many year,; could not dress
myself without help Now am free from all pain
ana soreness, and ahle to do all my ousessor.
owe my thanks 70 Electric Bitters Tor having re-
ne"ed my youth, and removed completely all dis
ease ana Jam Try bottle, only SOC, at II. C.
Pierce's Drug sfore.s
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-18

A gentleman who well knows the
ms and outs of politics says that all
things considered, he believes that
Harrison of Indiana, and Hawley Of
Conn, would make the strongest pos
sible republican candidates for presi-
dent and vice president for the year
1AAk